{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "place": "Private Room", "content": "Doing our best to skirt around the crushed, gut-churning remains of the Tieqiu Crew’s boss—with Sinclair barely suppressing a gag—we made it to the elevator." }, { "id": 1, "place": "Elevator Interior", "content": "Despite being the first to grouse and fuss about \"insects\" during our last expedition, Rodya made her way to the elevator without a word and pressed the button heading down to the basement." }, { "id": 2, "content": "And once silence descended…" }, { "id": 3, "content": "Saude began hitting Rodya with a barrage of pent-up questions." }, { "id": 4, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "… How did you manage to win without even using any Wishpower?" }, { "id": 5, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "No, before any of that, what made you so sure that you’ll win regardless?" }, { "id": 6, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Yikes, hold your horses, gal… One question at a time. Okay?" }, { "id": 7, "content": "With a grin, Rodya talked Saude into calming down, then slowly began to elaborate." }, { "id": 8, "model": "로쟈", "content": "The Tieqiu Crew’s boss had been wary of the Tingtang Gangleader before the game even began." }, { "id": 9, "model": "뫼르소", "content": "How did you know that? You couldn’t have read the tells from his mechanical body." }, { "id": 10, "model": "로쟈", "content": "He had every reason to. After all, everyone seemed to know that the Tingtang Gang owned a Wishpower extractor." }, { "id": 11, "model": "로쟈", "content": "He must've been totally sure that Wishpower was gonna come into play one way or the other, regardless of who ended up playing." }, { "id": 12, "model": "에피", "teller": "Effie", "title": "LCCB", "content": "So… You deliberately made it look like you were using a sticker to bait him into calling you out on it?" }, { "id": 13, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Yup! Then I declared I’m going all in~ I needed to appear suspiciously ballsy in his eyes." }, { "id": 14, "model": "로쟈", "content": "A winning gambler creates her own momentum and rides it. Fuhu." }, { "id": 15, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "……" }, { "id": 16, "model": "로쟈", "content": "I mean, look. Even you guys thought I’d popped the wish stickers, right?" }, { "id": 17, "model": "로쟈", "content": "If I’m being real, at the end of the day, wish stickers and all that stuff are just hopes and desires given official-sounding labels." }, { "id": 18, "model": "로쟈", "content": "To someone with unshakable faith in themselves, it’s nothing more than a weird piece of paper." }, { "id": 19, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "That can’t be true… J Corp.’s Wishpower-related tech is an officially approved semi-Singularity with widely proven efficacy." }, { "id": 20, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "Tens of thousands of people rely on Wishpower for every aspect of their lives…" }, { "id": 21, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Nothing hits the spot like a little confidence boost in this day and age, right?" }, { "id": 22, "model": "로쟈", "content": "But me? I’m different." }, { "id": 23, "model": "로쟈", "content": "I’ve always believed in myself." }, { "id": 24, "model": "이상", "content": "... To have faith is to preclude the plummeting of one's heart." }, { "id": 25, "model": "이상", "content": "Pray tell, how does one go about acquiring such faith?" }, { "id": 26, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Oh, that? It’s actually super simple. I’ll let you in on the secret, so listen up." }, { "id": 27, "model": "싱클레어", "content": "Ooh…" }, { "id": 28, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Just think: “I’m the most awesome person in the world, so whatever anyone else says is a crock of shit!”" }, { "id": 29, "model": "파우스트", "content": "That certainly makes sense. Faust subscribes to that perspective as well." }, { "id": 30, "model": "싱클레어", "content": "……" }, { "id": 31, "model": "이상", "content": "… Perhaps I shouldn’t have asked at all." }, { "id": 32, "model": "단테", "content": "" }, { "id": 33, "content": "Sadly, our merriness over this small victory was short-lived." }, { "id": 34, "place": "Casino Mine B1", "content": "The cavern was filled with the sounds of pickaxes striking against craggy walls, and we saw security guards keeping strict watch over a vault," }, { "id": 35, "content": "almost as if they were trying to send us a note of warning that they weren't about to let us reach the bottom so easily." }, { "id": 36, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Hold on a sec! The heck was the point of winning the game, then?!" }, { "id": 37, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Why do we have to be so sneaky about this? And what's up with those slaves picking away at rocks?" }, { "id": 38, "model": "소드", "teller": "Saude", "title": "LCCB", "content": "We technically did earn ownership, but... we don't have anything to prove that we're the winners, not to mention how we're more or less intruders to them." }, { "id": 39, "content": "In all fairness, the way we were lurking in front of the vault painted the picture of blatant thieves." }, { "id": 40, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "Quite the grand excavation. They sure didn't waste space—they even made spare vaults here, all the while digging a tunnel." }, { "id": 41, "model": "로쟈", "content": "What an incredible sight… When my time comes, lay me to rest under a pile of cash just like that one over there. I want my last breath filled with the smell of banknotes." }, { "id": 42, "model": "그레고르", "content": "By the way, about that fella at the table who gave us the up-down… Did you know him from somewhere?" }, { "id": 43, "model": "로쟈", "content": "… A friend from back home." }, { "id": 44, "model": "단테", "content": "" }, { "id": 45, "model": "로쟈", "content": "Greg, love, these get-togethers are always uncomfortable. Didya already forget about that one heck of a reunion you had with your former comrades?" }, { "id": 46, "model": "그레고르", "content": "… Can’t argue with that." }, { "id": 47, "model": "홍루", "content": "There are things moving behind those bars." }, { "id": 48, "model": "홍루", "content": "Aha, I wonder if this is where they raise their pets?" }, { "id": 49, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "… Do pets from your home usually rattle their cages like they're about to rip the bars apart?" }, { "id": 50, "model": "파우스트", "content": "It’s the Peccatula." }, { "id": 51, "model": "단테", "content": "" }, { "id": 52, "model": "그레고르", "content": "Miss Yuri would’ve knocked three grown adults out cold with a scoff if she heard that." }, { "id": 53, "model": "싱클레어", "content": "Oh, Yuri…" }, { "id": 54, "model": "파우스트", "content": "It is possible, theoretically speaking." }, { "id": 55, "model": "파우스트", "content": "Provided that they possess a similar level of intelligence to humans and that an empirically proven method of managing them exists, that is." }, { "id": 56, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "Huh… I guess they could make for excellent guard dogs if that ever works out." }, { "id": 57, "model": "홍루", "content": "Oh? On closer look, these people have fingers or other parts of their bodies bitten off." }, { "id": 58, "content": "Thankfully, he didn’t add an obnoxious remark like “Is this in fashion?” this time." }, { "id": 59, "model": "홍루", "content": "… Is this in fashion these days?" }, { "id": 60, "model": "단테", "content": "<……>" }, { "id": 61, "content": "Almost. Almost didn’t." } ] }